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Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

Geometric Analysis

Rice University

November 9-11, 2018

Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

Program

Friday, November 9

2:00-5:00pm Arrival and Registration   Herman Brown Hall (HBH)
Room 220
6:00-7:30pm

The Pit Room - Buffet dinner (Free)

*Vegetarian/vegan options will be available Brockman Hall 101
7:30-8:30pm Vlad Markovic Harmonic surfaces and simple loops HBH 227

Saturday, November 10

8:30am Shuttle from Wyndham to Rice Campus *Please let the Front Desk know that you'd like to take the shuttle to Rice.

Wyndham Lobby

9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast  

HBH 438

9:30-10:30am Brian White Translating Solutions of Mean Curvature Flow

HBH 227

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break   HBH 438
11:00-12:00pm Barton Zwiebach Minimal area metrics on Riemann surfaces with crossing bands of geodesics HBH 227
12:00-2:30pm Break for Lunch   Rice Village
2:00- 3:00 PM Optional Excursion: The Demon in the Diagram Matthew Ritchie Installation Moody Center
3:00-4:00pm Lu Wang Topological uniqueness of self-expanders of low entropy HBH 227
4:00-4:30pm Coffee Break   HBH 438
4:30-5:30pm Rich Schwartz Inscribing rectangles in curves HBH 227
6:15-7:00pm Poster Session   Farnsworth Pavilion - Rice Memorial Center
7:00pm Picos - Buffet Dinner
(Cost: $25 per person)

Menu

*Cash or Check Only

Farnsworth Pavilion - Rice Memorial Center

Sunday, November 11

8:30am Shuttle from Wyndham to Rice Campus *Please let the Front Desk know that you'd like to take the shuttle to Rice. Wyndham Lobby
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast   HBH 438
9:30-10:30am Rafe Mazzeo Spherical cone metrics HBH 227
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break   HBH 438
11:00am-12:00pm Bill Goldman Dynamical systems arising from the classification of geometric structures on manifolds HBH 227